KML2 Browser

(san9jay @ may 23 2004,09:12 Wrote:i have the same issues as floink.

no text cannot navigate past the first screen and cannot exit.

i found out that this texts missing is a skin issue (i had it too with blackblue). try mediacenter.

btw. strings.xml is not nececerely needed. you need it when you want a menuitem on your homescreen. so you don't need it when you do not update the skins home.xml

i hope this is clear.

(floink @ may 23 2004,00:15 Wrote:i don't seem to have any texts @ll. the images are there. when i go right with dvd-remote button images dissapear and there are no texts 'under' the gfx. navigation worx so the script seems to run fine.

i don't usually have my gamepad connected. maybe i'll wait or maybe i'll connect one.  

exiting don't work with 'menu' on remote or 'black' on gamepad (for me). have to shut down xbox to reset.

re alpha channels: coding? now you lost me

texts not showing is a skin issue, try mediacenter. i fixed the dvdremote. now images dont disappear anymore.

you can exit with menu now i hope. it works on my xbox.

maybe you can look at the alpha channels. i'm sorry for making you so confused. forget about the coding.

i posted a bugreport on this too:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=4205

maybe you are willing to look at it?

thanks

very impressive. all works well for me. you were right, its better than the itunes you were working on. :lol:

been playing around with this for most of the afternoon and it's just fantastic. only problems i've been having seem mostly to come from the design of the webradio2 service having too many streams that are poorly organized.

looking around at the various kml resourses online it seems like it would be reasonably easy and straight forward to add some additional features. specifically, to address the issues i was having it would be great to have a way to store and access favorite stations.

the way i'd conceive of implementing this would be to alter the browser such that it inserts an additional button when displaying a specific stream's information from webradio. this would allow for a stream's information to then be added to a local text file. from the text file it should be possible to create an asp page that could be served from the built in web server to create a dynamic kml results from the favorites text file that could be displayed via the browser. this can then all be tied together nicely with a simple start page pointing to both the favorites page and the standard webradio source.

-mysom

why is it that i cannot hear anything play though this?

is there some setting i have to do or something? it says database offline on the menu page, does that have something to do with it?

(andrewjm @ may 24 2004,01:25 Wrote:why is it that i cannot hear anything play though this?

is there some setting i have to do or something? it says database offline on the menu page, does that have something to do with it?

do you have the newest version installed? what version of xbmc do you have. does it load the playlist? did you check the debug screen? (press white button or info button on the scripts page to show the debug screen.) please be more specific. database offline has nothing to do with it.

greets

Quote:specifically, to address the issues i was having it would be great to have a way to store and access favorite stations.

i was also thinking about this but slightly different:
* when you start the browser, it will show you a screen with your favorites on it.
* there are also different kml sites from which you can select
when you select an item it loads the browser and shows you the page.
* you can add favorites by a simple button press.

so no webserver involved. it could be an idea because you can share your favorites with others, but for now it is too much work.

regards

(zilvershadow @ may 23 2004,12:11 Wrote:texts not showing is a skin issue, try mediacenter. i fixed the dvdremote. now images dont disappear anymore.

beeing the author of the retro skin i'd like to know what those issues are so i can fix retro and also notify other skinners what to do is there more to it then just making sure there is a compatible font included in the skin?

Quote:maybe you can look at the alpha channels. i'm sorry for making you so confused.   forget about the coding.

its just that i can't do any coding whatsoever

Quote:i posted a bugreport on this too:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=4205

the thing with xbmc is, in my experience, for gifs you have to have true transperancy. you cannot use a colorkey to get transparency. so fex in photoshop when creating the gif, use the layer transperancy as transperant parts. this has to do with the way xbmc interprets gifs which in some cases is done trough code that frodo made by reverse engineering gif-images (not sure if i explainded that right ). thats why i earlier was talking about how to control what images to be used. the images beeing downloaded might not be saved in the way xbmc want them. if you show me how you want the images to look i'll make them look that way in xbmc.

edit: come to think of it what i am talking about is the skin engine. python might have a whole different way of dealing with gifs. if so i probably can't help you...

Quote:the thing with xbmc is, in my experience, for gifs you have to have true transperancy.

i do not understand for what purposes the colorkey is needed then. as when the gifs are 32bit true transparant do not need any colorkey. in my opinion this colorkey is useless

i've looked in cximage library used to init the pictures. they support alpha channels. maybe some dev can look at it? it shouldn't be too difficult to fix this though.

i did not create the kml pages so i cant do anything with these images except that i could parse the images and save them in a 'correct' way so they get transparent.

kml2.5 will support true 32bit gif images with true transparancy (i thought) but this is still in the future.

Quote:edit: come to think of it what i am talking about is the skin engine. python might have a whole different way of dealing with gifs. if so i probably can't help you...

nope, python uses the same library engine as xbmc does, so if it works in xbmc with skins, it works with python to.